Nineteen Things Only People Who Are Not Going to Survive The Hour Will Understand

1. It’s beautiful out, like really beautiful. Not the way they’re used to, sunsets and sunrises, or even the bright clarity after rain. It’s more of a golden beauty, halfway through an eclipse beauty, halfway through a wildfire beauty.

This story, unlike most everything I’ve ever written, was prompted by the title. And the fact that I wrote it mostly to impress a friend and that is basically the carrot to my racehorse every single time. And the fact that I will never forget the taste of a high school football stadium at night.